SharePoint 2010 Officially Released
On May 12, 2010 the folks in Redmond officially released Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010 to the public. This latest release of SharePoint includes a number of important new features, some of which are SharePoint-specific, and others of which are tightly tied to the co-release of Office 2010. The updated version will be very compelling for some, and a moderately interesting upgrade for others. Let’s take a look at the highlights of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 (for more information, read our previous article written after SharePoint 2010 was announced). Continue Reading
There are cases when you will want unauthenticated users to be able to access a SharePoint site. The most common reason is when you are using SharePoint for your public-facing Web site. Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) supports this functionality. To configure anonymous access to WSS, follow these steps: 
If you have edited a Microsoft Office document that resides in SharePoint, you have no doubt noticed the Document Information Panel (DIP). From the DIP, you can access the properties of a document as well as check out a checked in document. There are two frequently asked questions about the DIP:
ShareVis has recently made some significant and exciting changes in their licensing model. Up to this point, ShareVis’ licensing model was very basic; organizations deploying ShareVis purchased one enterprise license per SharePoint Web Front End. ShareVis now has licensing based on a rental model and based on a usage model. 
So the plan is to use ShareVis for a while, review the audit trails of your processes and make some improvements. You’ll continue these steps for the foreseeable future in an effort to continually improve your processes. But how will you collect your process audit trails? Once a process is complete, ShareVis displays a complete, very verbose history on the screen. However, you need this data in more of a database or spreadsheet format in order to glean meaning from the raw data. 
With the upcoming releases of SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Office 2010, a new version of InfoPath will also be released. InfoPath 2007 included some minor enhancements over 2003 but did not get the Office 2007 user interface (UI) or ribbon bar. With InfoPath 2010, Microsoft has fully integrated InfoPath into the Office UI, as well as added relevant new features. 
